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B.
1. base unit / disk drive 2. hardware 3. load (we can also say install) 4. software 5. monitor 6. printer 7.
keyboard 8. mouse 9. scanner 10. log on 11. the Internet 12. web site 13. download 14. e-mail 15.
crashed 16. virus
C.
1. discovered 2. life expectancy 3. innovations 4. breakthrough 5. invented 6. Internet (we can also use the
expression world wide web) 7. e-mail 8. research 9. technophiles 10. technophobes 11. cybernetics
12. nuclear engineering 13. safeguards 14. genetic engineering 15. analysed 16. experiment
Other words and expressions which you might find useful include:
information technology / bioclimatology / geopolitics / chemistry / physics / cryogenics + other specialized scientific or
technological fields.
Page 78 Food and diet answers
A.
1. calories 2. protein 3. carbohydrate 4. fat 5. fibre (we can also use the word roughage) 6. cholesterol
7. vitamin 8. mineral (we often talk about the vitamin or mineral content of a food) 9. overweight (if somebody
is very overweight, we can say they are obese) 10. malnourished 11. nutrition (we often talk about the nutritional
value of a food. The adjective is nutritious. A person who specializes in the study of nutrition and advises on diets is
called a nutritionist)
Note: Fats in food come under four categories: saturated fat (which contains the largest amount of hydrogen
possible); unsaturated fat; polyunsaturated fat (which is less likely to be converted into cholesterol in the
body); and monounsaturated fat
B.
1. H 2. C 3. A 4. I 5. D 6. E 7. B 8. F 9. J 10. G
C.
1. fast food 2 / 3. minerals / vitamins (in either order) 4 / 5. fat / carbohydrates (in either order) 6. malnutrition
(the adjective is malnourished) 7. scarcity 8. harvest 9. balanced diet 10. fibre 11. fat / cholesterol 12. calories
13. Genetically modified 14. organic 15 / 16. salmonella / listeria (in either order) 17. food poisoning
Other words and expressions which you might find useful include:
consume / consumption / underweight / eating disorder / anorexia / anorexic / bulimia / bulimic / vegetarian / vegan
health foods
Page 80 Children & the family answers
A.
1. nuclear 2. extended 3. single-parent 4. bring up (we can also use the words raise or rear) 5. upbringing
6. divorced 7. childcare 8. adolescence (the noun is adolescent) 9. formative 10. birth rate 11. dependant (the
adjective is dependant) 12. juvenile delinquency (in Britain, a juvenile is anybody below the age of 18, which is the
age at which somebody becomes legally responsible for their own actions)
B.
1. H (authoritarian can be a noun and an adjective) 2. C 3. G 4. K 5. A 6. D 7. J (we can also use the expression
over-caring) 8. B 9. E 10. F 11. I 12. L
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C.
1. formative 2. divorced 3. brought up 4. foster family (a child who is raised by a foster family is called a foster
child. The verb is to foster) 5. authoritarian 6. upbringing 7. running wild 8. adolescence
9. juvenile delinquency 10. responsible 11. siblings 12. well-adjusted 13. lenient 14. over-protective
15. nuclear 16. single-parent 17. dependants 18. extended
For reference, see the Easier English Dictionary for Students (978 0 7475 6624 3)